Sep 17, 2024
Happy PC release day!
Based on Sewing Circle where only Clive and children can see moogles (which, given the lack of interaction between Nektar and everyone else, is not completely implausible)
Also part 2:
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Happy PC release day!
Based on Sewing Circle where only Clive and children can see moogles (which, given the lack of interaction between Nektar and everyone else, is not completely implausible)
Also part 2:
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stickers for clive!!
(full artwork of my sticker book design)
Torgal and Nektar on the way to deliver some gifts...
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âAttempts to draw any significant distinctions between the functions of nectar and ambrosia have failed, nor have etymological speculations, especially in reference to the linguistic origins of nectar, produced scholarly consensus. But what matters to our discussion is that, in Homer, nectar and ambrosia do not in and of themselves render the gods immortal, but they prevent them from aging and exempt them from the natural cycle of growth and decay. This, I believe, is the original Homeric conception of the meaning of nectar and ambrosia. In the later Greek tradition, it becomes blurred and diluted, and the rationale behind it is lost. Yet even some later texts still show an awareness of the Homeric distinction between immortality and agelessness. For instance, according to Hesiod (Theog. 793-798), a divinity who has violated the sacred oath by the Styx is deprived of nectar and ambrosia for one year. The god does not, of course, die but enters a state of suspended animation and remains without breath as well as speech. In the Hymn to Demeter, the infant Demophon does not eat grain, but Demeter anoints him with ambrosia, ââas if he were the offspring of a godâ (236-237). Yet this is not sufficient to render him immortal. Again, though mortal, the long-lived nymphs of the Hymn to Aphrodite (259-272) eat âimmortal foodâ which seems to keep them from aging. In the same poem, Eos nourishes Tithonus after he has already begun to age, âgrain and ambrosia,ââ as if this mixture might perhaps slow down the inevitable process of decay to which Tithonus is doomed (228-232). Pindar, as often, reflects both the original Homeric notion of the power of ambrosia and nectar and the later conception of them as the food of immortality. Thus, in Pythian 9. 63, Gaia and the Horai make Aristaeus immortal by dripping ambrosia and nectar on his lips. But in the first Olympian, Tantalusâ theft of ambrosia and nectar is motivated not by the desire to become immortal, but to become aphthiton. The root phthi- suggests the natural cycle of growth and decay which defines the human condition and links it to the vegetative process. Its negation (aphthi-) signifies precisely the exemption from that process enjoyed by the gods.
The original efficacy of ambrosia and nectar lies in their power as preservatives and age-retardants rather than as agents of immortality. Significantly, the goddess who pours nectar and ambrosia for the gods in Homer (IV.2-3) is called Hebe, which does not simply mean âyouth, âbut rather the flowering or peak of the process of growth. Elsewhere, Ganymede, whose eternal youth and beauty are emphasized, shares this function (XX. 232-235; cf.H.Aphr.206). In the Odyssey, we hear that ambrosia is brought to Zeus from beyond the Planktai by doves of whom we are told: But the smooth rock always takes away one of them; and the father inserts another to make up their number.(12.64-65) In some mysterious way, the process of supplying the gods with ambrosia involves loss and renewal; and we can only guess how Zeusâ âinsertionâ differs from the natural cycle of birth, growth, decay, and death. The use by the gods of nectar and ambrosia on the bodies of men demonstrates their power as preservatives. For example ,when Thetis pours nectar and ambrosia into the nostrils of the dead Patroclus, she neither brings him back to life nor makes him immortal (XIX.38-39). Rather, the goddess retards the natural rotting of the corpse, just as Aphrodite later anoints the body of Hector with ârosy ambrosial oilâ to prevent its corruption (XXIII.186-187). Similarly, when Achilles refuses all food after the death of his comrade, Athena, at the behest of Zeus, relieves his natural hunger by dripping nectar and ambrosia into his chest (XIX. 352-54). In a more lighthearted context, the goddess Eidotheia relieves the discomfort of Menelaus and his men, wrapped in seal skins, as they lie in wait for Proteus. Good naturedly, the goddess applies a little ambrosia to their nostrils to neutralize the putrid smell of the rotting skins (4. 444-446). Finally, to prepare Penelope for her dramatic appearance before the suitors and the yet unrecognized Odysseus, Athena washes and anoints her with an ambrosial cosmetic as she sleeps, thereby erasing the effects of Penelopeâs long years of waiting and mourning for Odysseus (18. 188-196). The suitors immediately become inflamed with desire at the sight of her beauty, though Penelope claims that it had perished long ago, when Odysseus left for Troy. Athenaâs beauty treatment retards or even reverses the process of aging and decay to which all mortal flesh is heir.â
- The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey by Jenny Strauss Clay
Once again, Iâve made a figure whose first comic does NOT show their actual outfit!
Donât worry about Jillâs face, she has a spare.
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Nektar - âPreludeâ From the album Journey to the Centre of the Eye (March 1972)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
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